Head-cap for vapor-bath cabinets.



N-.'718,435. PATENTBDJAN. 13, 1903.

' J. B. DAVISON.

HEAD GAP FOR VAPOR BATH UABINETS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20, 1901.

NO MODEL.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JOSEPH B. DAVISON, OF MILW'AUKEE, WISCONSIN.

HEAD-CAI? FoR VAPOR-BATH CABINETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,435, dated. January 1903- Application filed fieptember 20, 1901. Serial No. 75,797. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH B. DAVISON, a citizen. of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Head- Caps for Vapor-Bath Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in head-caps for vapor-bath cabinets.

The object of my invention is to provide means whereby the user may breathe the external atmosphere while permitting the internal vapor or hot air to reach all portions of the head,except the mouth or nose and mouth.

My invention also has for its object the pro vision of a metallic frame for the head-cap which will hold it out of contact with the head of the user, but may be readily folded when not in use.

In the following description reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a vertical sectional view drawn on aline extending through the cap from front to rear. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the metallic frame. Fig. 3 is a front view, on a reduced scale, of the cap.

Like parts are identified by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

Referring to the frame, 1 is a vertically-disposed bar having the shape of an inverted U with eyes 2 at the ends, in which the ends of the bars 3 and 4 are linked, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The bars 3 and 4. may be bent in any desired shape, so as to hold the lower portion of the cap in an expanded position and away from the head of the user, the bar 3 being preferably straight in its central portion and curved at each end for attachment to the vertical bar 1, while the bar 4E is preferably bent into a semi-oval form, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

The front of the cap is provided with openings 5, covered by mica, glass, or other suitable translucent material, and a breathingopening 6 is made opposite the position occupied by the nostrils and mouth of the user.

the face in such a position that the tube 7 will cover the mouth or nostrils (or both) of the user.

It will be understood that the covering 10 of the cap and the tube 7 are preferably composed of comparatively stiff heavy fabric,such as oil-cloth or rubber cloth, and the covering 10 is preferably bent inwardly at 11 around the edge of the opening 6 and stitched to the tube 7. The outer end of the tube 7 maybe held open by a metallic ring 12.

It will be observed that the tube TB of uniform diameter and is so formed as to leave the mouth and nostrils of the user wholly uncovered in a direct line extending through the front of the cap, the object of this tube 7 being to allow a free breathing-space for the user, while excluding the vapor of the interior'of the cap from the mouth and nostrils. So far as I am aware in all other devices'of this class heretofore produced it is necessary for the user to draw the fresh air by suction through a comparatively narrow tube leading to a larger chamber which incloses the mouth and nostrils, the effect of this construction.

being to compel the user to repeatedly inhale the vitiated air of the tube and the chamber at its inner end. In my construction, however, the object is to leave the mouth and nostrils uncovered-'6. e., wholly exposed to the exterior atmosphereand for this reason I employ a stiff tube 7, preferably strengthened by a metallic ring 12 at its outer end, whereby the tube is kept open and the space in front of the mouth and nostrils kept wholly unobstructed.

In order to support the rods 3 and 4 in a horizontal position, while permitting them to be folded into a vertical position. independently of the clothcovering 10, I have secured ICO . 1. A head-cap for vapor-bath cabinets, provided with a breathing-opening located directly opposite the mouth and nostrils of the user; a tube of uniform diameter, extending inwardly from said opening, and adapted to fit over the mouth and nostrils of the user, leaving the space in front of the mouth and nostrils wholly open and unobstructed in a direct line to the exterior of the cabinet, said tube being formed of stiff material strengthened at its outer end by a metallic ring, and adapted to retain a cylindrical form.

2. In a device of the described class, a headeap having a metallic frame-bar conforming to and adapted to support the crown; and other bars linked to said first-mentioned bar, and adapted to be folded either in a position substantially parallel thereto, or extended in JOSEPH B. DAVISON.

Witnesses:

LEVERETT 0. WHEELER, J As. B. ERWIN. 

